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Red Hat Italia organized its fifth open source day last week in Rome, and it was quite a success by the numbers: 700 people subscribed to the event, about 500 attendees, 6 talks in the plenary session and 12 speeches in the parallel sessions.
I have been following the whole event before running the final round-table, and I wish to share here some notes from the event.
SOS Open Source yesterday announced the availability a guide to choose a Linux (server) distribution. The guide - at the moment available only in Italian - provides information about a number of Linux distributions, included CentOS, Debian, Mandriva, Oracle Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise and Ubuntu.
Find out more about the guide at SOS Open Source website.
| Jun ’11 |
| 14 |
Red Hat Italia is organizing its annual Open Source Day, on the 14th of June 2011. The event will focus on how open source can help to fulfill today’s business requirements spending less, yet offering an overview on the technological news.
The agenda is still draft, stay tuned.
| Sep ’10 |
| 28 |
| 2:30 pm |
Red Hat Italia is organizing an executive meeting in Milan, on the 28th of September 2010. The event will focus on how open source can help to fulfill today’s business requirements with less cost and complexity. Continue reading ‘Red Hat Executive Meeting: Milan, 28 September 2010′
The second Innovators barcamp - a meet-up organized by the Italian innovators group to pass from talking about innovation to do it in and for public administrations - was the perfect venue to share some ideas about “Open Source & Multi-sided Markets“.
My ignite talk was around on one of the most important value of open source, if not the only one that makes open source a “different thing”: the community. Having had the opportunity to share my thoughts with over 100 attendees in a bare 5 minutes talk, I want here to talk deeper about why the community matters, focusing on its different constituents and their relative interests.
SAP – Alfresco Integration for the Public Sector - Presentation and demo integrating Alfresco with SAP based on the CTAC Connector in the public sector.
March 31 2010 11am EST.
Continue reading ‘Open Source Webinars: Alfresco, ifPeople, Red Hat’
| Feb ’10 |
| 2 |
| Feb ’10 |
| 4 |
Open Source Way, an open source event organized by ITWay - an Italian value added distributor operating also in France, Greece, Portugal, Spain, and Turkey - will be held on the 2nd and the 4th of February 2010 in Milan and Rome.
Open Source industry experts will shed light on the revenue growth potential of a fast-growing market, gaining attention also from large companies. The event will focus on new strategies and solutions offered by leading suppliers, with in-depth analysis of questions inherent to the professional and business use of open source technologies.
The event is open to everyone, register online (Milan, Rome).
Don’t worry about Red Hat’s 2009 profit decline - Savio Rodrigues keeps analyzing Red Hat’s profits, and highlighting that one-third of Red Hat’s profit comes from activities outside of its core business.
Microsoft releases ASP.NET MVC under the MS-PL License - Miguel de Icaza replying to comments explains why MS-PL incompatibility with GPL code is not an issue within C# and ASP.NET code.
Maintenance Woes Handicap Microsoft’s Azure - Billy Marshall’s, CEO of rPath, essay on cloud actors. Read also Javier Soltero’s thoughts.
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